CVE-2021-25178

Description

An issue was discovered in Open Design Alliance Drawings SDK before 2021.11. A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists when the recover operation is run with malformed .DXF and .DWG files. This can allow attackers to cause a crash potentially enabling a denial of service attack (Crash, Exit, or Restart) or possible code execution.

Category

7.8
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.91% Top 30%
Vendor Advisory opendesign.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://www.opendesign.com/security-advisories vendor advisory
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-663999.pdf third party advisory patch
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-243/ vdb entry third party advisory
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-240/ vdb entry third party advisory
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-220/ vdb entry third party advisory
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-155599.pdf third party advisory patch

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2021-25178?
CVE-2021-25178 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2021-25178?
To fix CVE-2021-25178, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2021-25178 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2021-25178 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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